hi george i think i had left by the time you started there...i was only on agency work and worked on the switchboard..i sort of remember 2 elderly men who worked in the office but its amazing as i can see their faces but cant recall their names...i will keep thinking..the last name of timings rings a bell though...
lyn
Hi Lyn
It is strange, I remember more about the UJG than things much more recent.
I was only 16 when I started there so have clear early memories; Harry Timings was the Works Manager, he was in his sixties and lived on the Walsall Road opposite the Alexander Stadium... Harry Reynolds was a similar age, he was the works foreman. And Doug Stewart was the owner, he was not there that often, he lived in Aston Cantlow, near Stratford.
Actually, my real friends there were many of the workforce, some great characters who had lived a life. I wonder whether you remember Jack Jordan, in the stores, he was a coporal and wounded quite badly on D. Day. Frankie Brayshaw the works labourer originally from Salford, he another WW2 vet. Frank Robinson in the steel stores. - He was into brass bands and another WW2 participant. Chris Pitt in the drawing room, he would have been late 20s then, tall and red hair. Albert Suckling in inspection, another older guy, say 60s, he was as bald as... Albert Brassington on the bench as a fitter, another in their 60s.
That's just a few, I remember many more...
There were about perhaps 8 of us who were teenagers upto about 30, but most were more mature, and a lot were either in the forces during the War or were actually working at the UJG during the war years having been there for over 40 years.
Does any of the above ring any bells..?
George